Monday, June 30, 2014

Unit 2: Income equality; the effects of taxes and benefits

Good data source from the guardian


http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/jun/26/is-wealth-being-distributed-fairly-through-benefits-and-taxation

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Sunday, June 08, 2014

Sunday, June 01, 2014

Unit 2: Negative effects of unemployment in Spain

Child poverty, reports Aljazeera


http://bcove.me/cpz7slyl

Unit 2: The multiplier effect of building a prison

A £23m a year injection to  the Wrexham area, if you believe this politician


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-27640797#

Unit 2: Youth unemployment in Portugal

Thanks to tutor2u for this Aljazeera clip


http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/unit-2-macro-fears-for-portugals-lost-generation

Unit 2: Problems with measuring GDP

One issue normally raised is the problem of the informal, or black, economy


It seems the ONS is trying to include some of that unrecorded activity, according to Sky




http://news.sky.com/story/1271385/drugs-and-prostitution-worth-10bn-annually


and the Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/may/29/drugs-and-prostitution-contributed-almost-10bn-economy-in-2009


and this tutor2u summary
http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/unit-2-macro-sex-and-drugs-included-in-measured-uk-gdp
and the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27627132#
and tutor2u
http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/the-value-of-drugs-and-prostitution?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economics_news+%28tutor2u+Economics+Blog%29#When:15:17:00Z